Topic: Request: Show default trust on Marketplace for guests (non-registered users) - page 2. (Read 519 times)
March 03, 2018, 12:53:38 PM
DT is flawed though. Even theymos agrees and is encouraging people to tailor lists
March 03, 2018, 12:45:37 PM
Lately a lot of new accounts have been posting direct buy links or external contact information to trade gift cards or similar digital goods.
These links are published on self-moderated and locked threads so no comments are possible other than fake vouches by their alt accounts.
As a result a lot of people get scammed and the sellers launder money.
I've been trying to fight this by leaving negative trust to those accounts. Hopefully a red warning will help.
However since they try to sell off-forum, either on auto-buy external sites, skype or similar, it seems their main target are non-registered users finding the threads using Google.
Exactly those users are the ones who don't see any red warning on the sellers' accounts (in case you didn't know, trust is shown to registered users only).
At the moment it's not possible to warn them in any way. The result is bitcointalk is helping users to be scammed and sellers to launder money.
What I'm asking is those non-registered users to see the default trust. It wouldn't add any significant load to the server because it can be cached since the same information would be shown for every guest, web crawler et al.
Although I think that's the best solution, I see other options too:
These links are published on self-moderated and locked threads so no comments are possible other than fake vouches by their alt accounts.
As a result a lot of people get scammed and the sellers launder money.
I've been trying to fight this by leaving negative trust to those accounts. Hopefully a red warning will help.
However since they try to sell off-forum, either on auto-buy external sites, skype or similar, it seems their main target are non-registered users finding the threads using Google.
Exactly those users are the ones who don't see any red warning on the sellers' accounts (in case you didn't know, trust is shown to registered users only).
At the moment it's not possible to warn them in any way. The result is bitcointalk is helping users to be scammed and sellers to launder money.
What I'm asking is those non-registered users to see the default trust. It wouldn't add any significant load to the server because it can be cached since the same information would be shown for every guest, web crawler et al.
Although I think that's the best solution, I see other options too:
- Making the whole Marketplace board available only to registered users. Guests would be forwarded to the registration form when trying to reach it.
- Showing red trust for everyone until they register and set up their trust list. Something similar to what theymos is thinking about for registered users with DefaultTrust only.
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